Word: vast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Called to the presidency in early manhood, he has administered the affairs of this University for forty years with eminent skill and fidelity. Its vast development during his term of service has been mainly due to his rare wisdom, his strong convictions, his enterprise and his zeal. Prompt to initiate reforms and fearless yet prudent in pressing them, he has by his constructive energy transformed Harvard College into a university, and at the same time has exerted an influence on the educational forces of the nation which has largely shaped their policy, so that he stands today the leader...
...Baldwin began his lecture by describing the conditions in the Arctic Sea. There exist vast ice-packs that move slowly along the course of least resistance. The obstruction of Greenland and America on one side and of Asia and the northern archipelago on the other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked...
...Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition and Plans for Future Polar Research" in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. He will outline, for the first time, his new theory for reaching the North Pole, which he hopes to employ in his next Arctic expedition. Vast ice-floes, starting from Behring Sea, have floated across the comparatively open water around the North Pole, into the region near Greenland. Mr. Baldwin intends to establish a camp of portable houses, with an adequate supply of fuel and provisions, on one of these ice floes and to drift with...
...surrounded himself with musicians and singers, and lived in a continuous orgy. His lavish expenditures and desire for pleasure alarmed the people. The conflagration of Rome on July 19, 64; added to their fears and Nero's downfall resulted. Conceiving the idea of building a new Rome, Nero spent vast sums of money with the result that the finances of the state declined. No money was left to pay the army, which revolted. Nero was now abandoned by all, and committed suicide on June...
...Meyer first described the growth of the post office department from the time of Benjamin Franklin, when it contained 45 offices, to its present vast expense with 63,000 offices in ever part of the country. The expenses in 1907 were $178,000,000.00 and they are increasing each year. The rural postal system was first established in 1896 and has increased immensely in the last ten years. Due to this, the vast bulk of the people have become better informed on daily topics...